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Today’s automotive marketplace rewards innovative, efficient, and
reliable vehicles with prestige and sales. The race is always on to
bring breakthrough designs and technology to the showroom floor first.
SolidWorks® software provides the full range of integrated modeling,
simulation, visualization, and communication tools that automotive
manufacturers need to design better cars, vehicles, and transportation
systems faster – and at lower cost.
Work with customer data
Using Instant3D, you can accurately achieve your customers’ design
visions by translating their 2D sketches and photos into 3D solids that
you can use, manipulate, and modify in your automotive designs. SolidWorks also offers:
- ScanTo3D. Scan and import physical part models into SolidWorks.
- FeatureWorks®. Edit and fine-tune imported designs in SolidWorks.
- The ability to import math models in Unigraphics®/NX™, I-DEAS®, Pro/E®, DWG, VDAFS, IGES, STEP, and other popular formats.
Produce design iterations in less time
More than ever, your teams need to quickly turn around precision
designs. With SolidWorks, you can create, revise, and check your
drawings faster than with 2D CAD systems. Plus, SolidWorks instantly
and accurately translates your 2D work to your 3D models. You’ll also
save time with these SolidWorks capabilities:
- SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology). Reduces the learning curve and allows beginners to design like experts.
- Heads-up Interface. Deliver innovative, accurate 3D models with fewer picks and clicks.
- FeatureXpert. Add fillets and draft features to your models with
speed and ease, instead of trial-and-errorLarge Assembly capability.
- Model complete systems –even those with tens of thousands of parts – in their entirety within SolidWorks.
- Fully associative top-down and bottom-up design techniques. Make a change – and SolidWorks applies it across your entire model.
- Advanced surfacing tools for creating complex, aerodynamic shapes
and composite surfaces. Create complex ergonomic shapes and surfaces by
simply pushing and pulling on control points.
- Sheet-metal design tools with ready-made Smart Fasteners Technology.
- Mold development and analysis tools.
- Configuration Management for parts and assemblies.
- Specialized routed system design tools for developing piping,
tubing, pneumatics, hydraulics, and electric cabling systems – and
integrating them with mechanical designs.
- Seamless, single-button integration of an extensive selection of SolidWorks Partner Solutions.
Reduce weight and costs
Before you commit to costly physical prototypes, SolidWorks gives
you tools to optimize your models for weight and materials. SolidWorks
also offers:
- Fully integrated Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software. Eliminate
mechanism and structural design failure with stress, thermal,
kinematics, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis
capabilities.
- DFMXpress. Test your models for manufacturing issues on screen, instead of on the production floor.
Win new business
SolidWorks gives you a competitive edge when it comes to winning new
business. Using tools like SolidWorks product data management software
and SolidWorks Search, you can quickly locate existing designs that
prove your experience and competence to prospects – and quote projects
faster. SolidWorks also offers:
- SolidWorks eDrawings®, DWGviewer, and 3D Instant Website. Securely
and effectively communicate your work in 3D to any firm, regardless of
their CAD platform.
- PhotoWorks™ and SolidWorks animation capabilities. Use
photorealistic renderings and animations to clearly demonstrate how
your products will look and perform.
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